[geeks] Re: State Contracts

[Kevin]

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You're right, i don't feel like too much of a schmuck.  The
only VMS experience i've got is an account at vmsbox.cjb.net,
good place to go if you want to mess around with VMS but don't
feel like setting up a box.

Good info, thanks.

/KRM

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 4:22:46 +1300
Gavin Hubbard <ghub005 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Don't feel like a schmuck - it is a bit obscure.
> 
> On VMS system the Epoch time is set to 00:00:00 on November
> the 17, 1858 (or 1858-NOV-17 in VMS format). This is the
> base date of the U.S. Naval Observatory's ephemerides
> (google will give the details, but basically it is a
> reasonably unique astronomical conjunction).
> 
> On a Mac system, the Epoch time used to be 00:00:00 on
> January 1st 1904. I don't know if this is still true for the
> BSD-derived OS X.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gavin
> 
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> > I know i'm gonna feel like a schmuck for asking, but what
> > is significant about that date?
> > 
> > /KRM
> > 
> > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 4:03:58 +1300
> > Gavin Hubbard <ghub005 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> > 
> > > Real men know that time began on 1858-NOV-17 :-)
> > > 
> > > Pay no attention to the January 1, 1904 heretics...
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Gavin
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